The Big Valley - Belva, Oklahoma
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- No Nick, Jared, or Heath, but the scenery in the Cimarron River Valley here is incredible. I have tried to get a shot from some distance away to show as much of the rocks and scenery as possible. This is a small part of "the hill". Thanks for watching.
Music credit to www.danosongs.com
Out-freakin'-standing! Well done production. My kind of place. Lucky you.
@basicbill1 it's well worth your time to visit this area. It's great now with the ripe wheat, but it's spectacular in the fall. Winter is about like anywhere else. There's also an original Harvey House with museum upstairs and restaurant downstairs in Waynoka. It was packed when I was there Saturday.
Beautiful scenery Jim, Always a good place for a few shots. 5*****
@basicbill1 Thanks Bill. That's high praise coming from you! I didn't think that little segment was going to amount to much because I've seen it all before, but it didn't turn out too badly. You can see why I like that area so much.
@AJ67901 I've driven to Wichita and Ok City in a longish day a few times. Sure would like to get out there for a few days.
Here is an excerpt from my great grandmother's autobiography, who traveled to Belva in 1900 with her husband and baby daughter: " . . . By this time, we had our first baby, a little girl. We named her Essie. We lived there one winter, then in the spring, we decided to go to Oklahoma Territory, thinking we could go to the new country and file on land and that someday we would have a home of our own. We had friends who had gone to Oklahoma and they wrote to us and told us some wonderful things about the new country which, of course, made us want to try our luck. My folks begged us not to go and said we would not stay, that we was just wasting our time and money. But we still wanted to try our luck, so we sold what little we had and on the 5th day of April, we boarded a train and started west for the Oklahoma Territory. We got to our destination on the 7th day of April. We got off the train at a little station called Tucker. It is now called Belva. It was a terrible looking place right in a canyon between two high hills, or rather bluffs. I never will forget what Noah said when he looked at those bluffs. He said “Well, I just have a notion to just Tucker right back.” But so many people told us when we left Missouri that we never would stay, that we would be glad to get back; but we did not want to be a piker and we did not want to hear them say “Oh, I told you so”, so we just made up our minds that we could stay and tough it out if our friends and other people could.
The Indians were still plentiful and the cowboy and his gun was a part of the law, but the cattlemen were moving out and turning the country over to the homesteaders pretty fast. Our friends met us at the train and brought us to their place, which was west of a place where there was a store and a post office, now called Lenors, in Dewey County, a few miles south and east of Vici. Our friends name was John Lawson, who lived in a sod house, the first sod house I ever seen.
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Thanks for your reply and adding a personal family dimension to the area. There are a few pictures of the Belva depot in Waynoka at the Harvey House museum upstairs. It would have been wild country in 1900 for sure. Thank you for watching and commenting. I need to get back to that area. It is a special place.
@BNSF7776 Thanks Sylvester